Improvement in wheel-plows



I. LONG.

Plow. L

No. 3,465 Patented Marl. 9. `1844.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.'

ISRAEL LONG, OF BUOYRUS, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN WHEEL-FLOWS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 3,465, dated March 9, 1844.

To all whom it may concern:

Beit known thatLIsRAELLoNG, ofBucyrus, in the county of Crawford and State of Ohio, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Plows by means of the application ot' an adjustable wheel at the bottom of the plow and at the center of the same, whereby friction is decreased and the turning and drawing back of the plow are greatly facilitated, the wheel to be of a size proportioned to the size of the plow, and may be applied to all and any size and kind of bar-share plows, of which the following is a specification.

The nature of my invention consists in providing a wheel of a size adapted to that of the plow as shown in the drawings, and attached to the plow, as hereinafter described.

Figurelrepresents the part of a plow invext ed, whereinAshows an edge View ofthe wheel; B, the edgeof a bar of iron bolted to the sheath, ruiming back horizontally parallel with the 'landside as high as the center of the wheel.

C represents a cross-section of the sheath. d. represents a joint in the bar of iron, so made as that the wheel may be elevated or depressed at pleasure. E E represents a bolt running through the bar of iron and center of the wheel, forming a journal or axis for the wheel. F F are nuts or burrs, screwed on to each end of the axis to confine the wheel, as circumstances may Fig. 2 shows the vertical elevation of part of a plow without the landside, showing the wheel and `its fixtures, in which A exhibits a. side View of the wheel; Bf of the bar of iron described in Fig. 1, with a side View of the joint at d. C is the sheth, with the heads ot' the bolts t' v1 fastening the bar of iron tov it. g shows a horizontal arm of wood framed into the sheth above and over the bar of iron, and parallel therewith, for the purpose of -receiving a rod, k, the lower end of which is fastened into the bar of iron, and, running up through the arm g of wood, has a nut on the iron rod 7c above and below arm g, as shown at h It, for the purpose ot' elevating or depressing the wheel.

Fig. 3 represents a vertical elevation of the part ot' a plow, with the landside on, exhibiting a curve taken out of the landside at J, for i Ithe purpose of throwing the weight of the plow onto the wheel by bearing down on the handles. The bar of iron B is straight, and has a rule-joint in it at d. The rod k is a` strong straightrod, that extends up vertically through the horizontal arm g above. The operation of this adjustable wheel is to incline the point of the plow into the ground more or less, and thus ISRAEL LONG.

Witnesses J. B. LARWILL, -I. L. RUHL. 

